The Greeks invented them, but forgot to take out a patent. So by the time the Olympics came home again, someone had tampered with the product. Sujit Bhar reports from a McDonaldised Athens

Analyse this: they had been hurt when the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games had been given to Atlanta and not to its birthplace. Now they have it. But what the Greeks had bet their bottom drachma on, those pre-euro days, has proved a psychological disaste... | Read..

When V. Chandra says that her son is named after her, somehow the pieces of the jigsaw puzzle fall into place. After her divorce some years ago, the secretary fought and won a case in the Bombay High Court to allow her son to use her name. Anand Chan... | Read..